well i was gonna say that too...who the fuck in Kansas City has 70 for a ticket. That's how America is set up though? C'mon us fiscal conservatives know this already, let the invisible hand guide. Minimal government intervention, etc...

Sam is right you can make a direct parallel to politics/economics

The politics was sarcastic hyperbole. Your argument for a salary cap is just dumb. The Oriels are bad because of a poisonous owner who spent money poorly and destroyed the farm system. God nothing makes me see red with rage more than people thinking a hard salary cap does anything for competitive integrity.

NFL has a hard cap, yet the browns have been terrible forever. Baseball is a regional sport, and teams should be rewarded for creating regional support and revenue for themselves. The twins despite being in the bottom half of payroll for the last decade have consistently been competitive, and while Oakland hasn't been as good the last few years they had a good run and have some very promising talent on the team now.

Money makes building a baseball team easier, it doesn't guarantee any success, just look at the Mets. Teams already have significant control over players for the early part of their career and this limits their earning potential significantly as they are really only indentured servants until they earn enough major league service time, I could not support a system in good conscience that would further suppress players salaries.

Just take my word for it and accept that a salary is a terrible idea for baseball. Also scrap the draft.

Shades of Jeffery Maier....... another fan assisted home run in the playoffs....... instead of an out being called and the fan being ejected, it's a homerun........typical horseshit.

Umps are terrible, that I agree with.

Quiet in the Bronx in the top of the sixth.

Sam, a hard cap doesn't guarantee that every team will be perfectly even (known as complete parity.) Citing one team that is consistently bad hardly proves that a hard cap is ineffective at increasing parity.

I'm not saying that the level of parity in the NFL is due to the hard cap (although many would argue so) but trying to disprove it because "omg this one team suxors!" is just dumb. Many would argue that the NFL has the most parity in the major US sports, even with a few perpetually bad teams.

Personally, I think the high rate of injuries in the NFL is a big reason for the level of parity found there.

ps Even consistently bad teams like the Cardinals occasionally pull off a good season. I'll take what I can get after so long a drought.

More different baseball teams have won a championship in the last ten years than in either the NFL or NBA which both have harder caps.

The abysmal teams in MLB are not because they do not have access to money, it is because they are poorly run, same reason the Browns, Raiders, Bills, Rams, Lions suck.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39540101

MLB has more parity in championships in the last 30 years, hard salary caps are dumb and only protect rich people from making too many bad decisions.

So what if a team has to rebuild every 5 years in MLB, same thing happens in the NFL. Money can keep teams in closer contention year in and year out but it is no guarantee for success.

On another more hilarious note, ha fucking ha at the Yankee fans leaving before the game is over.

10-3! 3-1!

Phillies have still got this. The Blantometer is going to light up like a Christmas terr tomorrow with Ks. The umps have been terrible for both series, though. Balls/strikes in the PHI/SF series has been awful both ways.

Sam, common misconception. Look at percentage of teams in the top 5 to make the playoffs in the last 10 years, then get back to me.

That's a better study vs a small sample size playoffs.